The Blue Blaze

Out of all of President Trump’s colorful tweets recently, the one that caught our attention was a rather boring one relating to retirement, because we LOVE this stuff! While boring, if passed this could have a direct effect on how you live after 70 ½.

This summer President Trump signed an executive order for Treasury & Labor Departments to review ways to make small employer retirement plans more affordable and accessible in addition to extending and/or pushing back the Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) requirements.

In this edition of The Blue Blaze, we’d like to focus on the RMD requirements and why this matters to you and making it through retirement.

Following a long and extensive battle with government bureaucracy, the Fiduciary Rule died on June 21, 2018. The Rule is remembered fondly by its many supporters for the transparency and objectivism it was meant to bring to the financial services industry. It is mourned by the many who believed in its unfulfilled potential.

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, a venture backed startup is banking on the notion that millennials with money to invest want options that align closely with their social values and that they would rather use a robo advisor than a flesh and blood financial expert.